Xia Fan and his party quickly returned to the family house, and then did not inform Xia Ya, and the group had already followed Xia Fan and returned to Xia Fan's house.

Ya'er and Bai Xingshu still didn't come back, so Xia Fan asked the bloody hand to close the gate of the courtyard, and then let the bloody river guard the door of the house, and then led Ye Kui and Ye Yi back to the study.

After taking their seats in the study, Ye still made a cup of tea for Xia Fan and Ye Kui.

Xia Fan casually threw the packets of medicine on the table in the study, then sat opposite Ye Kui, and asked, "What is the strength of that person?" ”

"It's very strong, and if you play head-to-head, I'm definitely not his opponent."

Ye Kui said in a somewhat heavy tone.

"Can you tell the specific grade?"

"There should be a strength of the Sanpin Martial Sect, but compared to Wanli, there must be a gap. I am a forger, and I am born to be much stronger than the martial cultivators of the same level in terms of strength, and the other party doesn't know this, so he just uses his strength to test me, and this is a small loss. I'm afraid that the other party's assessment of my strength will also have some errors because of this. ”

Ye Kui thought for a while and gave his own judgment.

"Can you tell where it came from?"

Xia Fan then asked.

"I haven't seen them, if Fan Li is here, maybe I can see some clues. Among the three of us, if you really want to say that you are well-informed, Fan Li is indeed much stronger than the two of us. But I'm not sure, but I can probably guess that it's not far from ten. ”

Ye Kui paused, and after thinking about it in his mind, he continued: "The two old men brought by that young man must be both martial sect-level powerhouses, and the one who tested us before must be the weaker one among them. When I was struggling with the other party, I deliberately observed the old man who didn't make a move. But I found that from beginning to end, the old man did not show any unexpected emotions, and such a reaction can only prove that the other party has never taken these things seriously, and this kind of self-confidence is naturally based on absolute strength. ”

"Go on."

Xia Fan took a sip of tea, put the teacup down, and spoke.

"The people who test us already have the power of the Three-Rank Martial Sect, and those who can form an absolute suppression of this power must at least reach the level of the Seventh-Rank Martial Sect or above. And Dongshan County, where we are located, has always been the county with the lowest level of force among the eight counties under the jurisdiction of the entire dynasty. There are thirty-two cities in the county, and there are no more than eight cities that can have a seventh-rank martial arts level powerhouse. ”

Speaking of this, Ye Kui smiled a little embarrassedly, and continued rather embarrassedly: "Xia Shao, you also know that although my forging level is very inferior to you, it is still very famous in the scope of this Dongshan County. So much so that I have crossed paths with some of the dominant forces in the city, and many of them have asked me to forge treasures. Among them, there are several cities with powerhouses above the level of the Seven-Rank Martial Sect. So, if I exclude the cities that I know and can be sure that they are not, there are only two targets left to be suspected. And I'm personally more inclined to ...... These people are supposed to come directly from the county town. ”

"The county seat of Higashiyama? The forces in the county town have come all the way to our Qingyang City? Why? In the eyes of those people, hasn't Qingyang City always been equated with a remote place where birds don't? What is there here that will make those people look at it? ”

Xia Fan raised his eyebrows and said to himself.

"This is not clear, it may also be that some medium-sized forces in the county town want to continue to improve their overall strength through this kind of extension after their development has entered a bottleneck. This has happened before. After all, the competition in the county town is too fierce, and the middle forces can only survive in the cracks, so it is not surprising that there is such an idea. It's just that Qingyang City is indeed too remote for the county town, and if you want to come here to develop...... It's a strange thing. ”

Ye Kui was also a little unclear.

"Forget it, this is not in a hurry, it is the priority to solve the problem at hand first. You go to the City Lord's Mansion and talk to the City Lord to see if the City Lord knows the origin of the other party, and I need to know the most definite attitude of the City Lord, so that I can more accurately determine what to do next. ”

Xia Fan said with Ye Kui.

Ye Kui agreed, got up directly without any delay, and then walked out of the study.

Xia Fan then set his eyes on the packets of medicines that he casually threw on the table in the study, got up and walked to the table, opened the packets of pills one by one, and then reached out and dipped each pill one by one, and put it into his mouth again and again to taste it.

Then Xia Fan closed his eyes.

After a while, Xia Fan reopened his eyes, and the expression on his face was a little strange for a while.

"What's wrong? Is it difficult to handle? ”

Ye on the side still asked.

"The person refining the medicine should be an alchemist with a rank of around the fourth order of black iron, and the highest level will not exceed the fifth order of black iron. However, this alchemist obviously didn't have any experience in refining this entry-level drug, which was not even a pill, so he forcibly refined it by relying on his own understanding of pharmacology and control of vitality. ”

Xia Fan said, took one of the pills in his hand, and put it in front of Ye Yi's eyes.

"You see, the surface of this pill doesn't have any of the softness it should have. It's completely forcibly pinched together, and if you think about it purely from a technical point of view, it's not worth mentioning at all. The reason why the medicinal effect is better than the medicine refined by our family is only because his own refining level is higher. And because our family doesn't even have an alchemist. Non-War Crimes......"

"I understand what you mean, that is, this level of alchemy doesn't pose any threat to you?"

"This is not alchemy at all, just piling up all the materials and then putting them into the medicine tripod, just relying on the integration of the medicine tripod itself, you can achieve such an effect. The only role played by the alchemist in this was only to drive the medicine tripod with the vitality and control the proportion of each medicinal material at the same time. It's a shame for the alchemist......"

Xia Fan pursed his lips, picked up the medicines on the table casually, and then threw them directly into the bin in the study that specially accommodated the garbage without looking at it.

"And what are you going to do?"

Listening to Xia Fan say it so easily, the only bit of worry in Ye Ying's heart disappeared.

"It's very simple, you can refine a lot of drugs that are better than theirs, and as for propaganda and other marketing behaviors, leave it to my father. In this regard, their ability is not comparable to those wastes of the Liu family who are submissive and live under Liu's domineering and obscene authority. ”

Xia Fan said casually.

"It sounds like a no-brainer."

"It's meant to be easy."